Show TO FIGHT RADICAL TEACHING tacoma woman donates to establish chair at pacific university at forest grove or ore A practical means of 0 combating the industrial social and economic durest being fostered in this country by the 1 I W W and other radical forces cas bas been found it la Is bell believed eved in the recent establishment of 0 the american leg legion ion chair of history lil story and patriotism at university forest grove ore this department conceived by lem le gionna alres ires when the effect of returned ex service men began to make itself manifest in stabilizing the restless unemployed became an accomplished fact when sirs mrs robert L mccormick of tacoma wash long a friend of the ex service rian man donated to the perpetuation of the chair the movement to establish the chair of botory and patriotism was started early last jast spring american logon legon men seeing possibilities in tile the policy of the pacific university whereby free scholarships were given all ex service men suggested that the university lay before the various patriotic W k 4 I 1 S I 1 I 1 aw mrs robert L mccormick eions of the country the matter of stabilizing its ita patriotic program A move to establish the american legion chair of history and patriotism resulted and culminated la in the gift of mrs mccormick of the amount dw aunt donated by mrs mccormick Cori halt half was as used in the erection of a building to house the department the remaining forms an endowment fund which assures the permanence of the chair the expressed purpose of the department part ment Is to teach and foster the ideas and ideals of the founders of the country and to perpetuate inthe lives of posterity tile the heroic service and sacrifice of the american legion aside from classroom lectures on the essentials of patriotism the course of study includes a laboratory course irk in the investigation ot of social industrial and economic conditions of unrest of the cause of the rise and fall of nations and the means whereby the dry rot which eats at the heart of government may be coni batted an example of the practical field work being accomplished by the students of the department Is seen in a recent threatened disturbance in mill towns along the coast american legion students went into the troubled district gained the confidence of the workers and succeeded in averting any disturbance such field work will be extended I 1 in n the future to include investigation and the making of reports on industrial conditions it has been found that where the students are well posted on all conditions the outbreak may be averted in many instances |